Monroe LA Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Richwood, LA — Ouachita Parish, population 3,881. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves Richwood homes and businesses.
Richwood property owners near the U.S. 165 South frontage, Richwood Road No. 1 count on Monroe LA Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Richwood. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Monroe to every job in Richwood, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (877) 748-2371 for a free roofing estimate in Richwood, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Richwood, LA
Richwood is the hardest jurisdiction on this site to pin down, and we would rather say so than pretend. The town is absent from the Louisiana construction code register, which lists 157 permit-issuing municipalities. Its own website nonetheless names a staff member for building and electrical permits, with a direct telephone number.
The tie-breaker is money. Richwood's audited annual financial report filed with the Louisiana Legislative Auditor describes the town's services as including building inspections, licenses and permits, and books licenses-and-permits revenue of $58,643 in the year ended June 2021 against $56,167 the year before. A town that collects that is issuing something.
What it is not is a parish matter. Ouachita Parish's permit office covers the parish excluding municipalities, and Richwood has been incorporated since the last day of 1974, so the parish office at Desiard Street will not take your reroof. Nor does the town publish a fee schedule, a code of ordinances or a permits page. Call the number and get it in writing.
On 6 May 2025 a bowing squall line crossed the south of the parish at about sixty miles an hour producing widespread gusts of sixty to ninety miles an hour. The survey team wrote that the damage swath gradually widened to a peak of up to ten miles as it approached the Ouachita River and Highway 165 south of Richwood.
They counted at least a thousand downed trees inside that swath, many onto structures, damaging scores of outbuildings and residences. That is a tree-fall event, and a tree-fall event is an insurance claim with a deductible attached. Louisiana bans a roofer from paying, waiving, absorbing or rebating that deductible, and from advertising the practice.
Ground here is Perry clay at about thirty-six percent within a mile and a half, with Portland at nineteen and Hebert at seventeen. Perry and Portland are the two highest shrink-swell soils in the parish. The U.S. 165 frontage and Richwood Road No. 1 run across the same material, and the joints on those roofs work every summer.
The housing numbers say who is making the decision. Owner occupancy is thirty percent of 793 occupied units, the lowest share on this site, and eighty-four percent of units heat with electricity. Median construction year is 1989. Most Richwood roofs are a landlord's call, and a written inspection report is worth more here than anywhere.
About Richwood, LA — and why local matters here
Richwood sits in Ouachita Parish with a population of roughly 3,881, close enough to Monroe that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the U.S. 165 South frontage, Richwood Road No. 1.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Richwood properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Ouachita Parish, and a roofing contractor who works the area weekly already knows what fails locally and what holds up. That is the difference between a bid and an accurate bid.
Getting a free estimate in Richwood
Call (877) 748-2371 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Richwood, usually within a couple of days. You get a written, itemized free estimate with materials and scope spelled out — no verbal ballpark, no pressure, and no charge whether you hire us or not.
We also serve Swartz, LA and the rest of the Ouachita delta. Everything starts at the Monroe LA Roof Pros homepage.
Roofing work we do in Richwood, LA
Monroe LA Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Richwood that we do in Monroe — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Roof Leak Repair — Ask what leaks in this parish and the answer is almost never the field of the shingle. It is a joint.
- Storm Damage Restoration — Northeast Louisiana storms arrive as squall lines rather than hurricanes. Wind comes from one quarter, hard, for ten or fifteen minutes ahead of a front, and it takes edges instead of fields.
- Hail Damage Roofing — Hail reaches Ouachita Parish most years. It does not arrive the way it arrives on the Texas caprock, and pretending otherwise is how homeowners here end up with a denied claim and a higher premium.
- Wind Damage Roofing — We sit two hundred miles from the Gulf and it shows in what fails. Nobody here needs the coastal fastening package sold down in Cameron and Calcasieu parishes, and buying it is a poor use of the same money.
- Roof Inspections — Most roof inspections are a snapshot. On ground that changes volume by a sixth between seasons a snapshot answers the wrong question, and the useful inspection here is a comparison instead.
- Asphalt Shingle Roofs — Roughly nine roofs in ten around here are asphalt, and the interesting choices are not the ones the brochures push. Color and profile matter far less than the deck beneath them and the nail that holds them down.
See the full list of Monroe services, or call (877) 748-2371.
Popular services in Richwood: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve Swartz, LA and the Ouachita delta.